Corey Cott made his Broadway debut as rabble-rousing newsboy Jack Kelly in Disney’s Newsies weeks after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. He went on to star as romantic lead Gaston in the Broadway musical adaptation of Gigi and created the role of bandleader and World War II veteran Donny Novitski in Bandstand, which transferred from Paper Mill Playhouse to Broadway in 2017.